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Confronting the Horror, Staying Alive
Confronting the Horror, Staying Alive
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamDecember 30, 2019
Using Visual and Auditory Art to Convey the Scale of Nuclear Arms
Using Visual and Auditory Art to Convey the Scale of Nuclear Arms
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamDecember 20, 2019
How Life Adversity Can Make Us Resistant to Psychic Numbing
How Life Adversity Can Make Us Resistant to Psychic Numbing
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamNovember 22, 2019
Poverty Retold: Why Narratives Matter for Economic Mobility
Poverty Retold: Why Narratives Matter for Economic Mobility
Arithmetic of Compassion TeamOctober 31, 2019
Why Do We Ignore Existential Risks?
Why Do We Ignore Existential Risks?
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamOctober 25, 2019
The Problem with Proportionality in War
The Problem with Proportionality in War
Psychic Numbing, ProminenceArithmetic of Compassion TeamJuly 11, 2019
Homestead: The Largest U.S. For-Profit Detention Facility for Migrant Children
Homestead: The Largest U.S. For-Profit Detention Facility for Migrant Children
Arithmetic of Compassion TeamJuly 9, 2019
Another Heartbreaking Photograph Grabs the Public’s Attention, but Will It Cause Us to Solve the Crisis at the Border?
Another Heartbreaking Photograph Grabs the Public’s Attention, but Will It Cause Us to Solve the Crisis at the Border?
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 28, 2019
The Girl Who Smiled Beads and the Experience of Genocide
The Girl Who Smiled Beads and the Experience of Genocide
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 19, 2019
Too Small, Too Slow: Making Toxicity Poignant Through Poetry
Too Small, Too Slow: Making Toxicity Poignant Through Poetry
Psychic Numbing, Slow Violence, Narrative EmpathyArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 6, 2019
Overcoming Pseudoinefficacy with the Collective Aggregation Effect
Overcoming Pseudoinefficacy with the Collective Aggregation Effect
PseudoinefficacyArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 30, 2019
Psychic Numbing and the Environment
Psychic Numbing and the Environment
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 23, 2019
The Children Are on Climate Strike
The Children Are on Climate Strike
Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 16, 2019
The Effects of Psychological Biases and Social Media on Nuclear War Decisions
The Effects of Psychological Biases and Social Media on Nuclear War Decisions
Psychic Numbing, ProminenceArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 9, 2019
Teaching Decision-Making Skills in the Classroom
Teaching Decision-Making Skills in the Classroom
Prominence, Pseudoinefficacy, Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 2, 2019
“Songs to Affect and Balance the World”: Poetry, Place, Home
“Songs to Affect and Balance the World”: Poetry, Place, Home
Environmental Humanities, Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamApril 25, 2019
Building Narrative Empathy Through Storytelling
Building Narrative Empathy Through Storytelling
Environmental HumanitiesArithmetic of Compassion TeamApril 19, 2019
“Let me tell your story”: A Review of A Private War
“Let me tell your story”: A Review of A Private War
Psychic Numbing, PseudoinefficacyArithmetic of Compassion TeamApril 11, 2019
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